Emmanuel Macron Is Not Your Friend

Jacyś chętni na polskiego Macrona? Ostatnia rzecz jakiej potrzebujemy to ładniejszy neoliberalizm. Polecam artykuł jakby ktoś jednak miał wątpliwości czy to aby nie dobry pomysł:

It’s a vision of an Uberized economy, a vision that people like Macron might find exciting and innovative, while others — say, workers — might view as dystopian and terrifying. But it’s consistent with Macron’s business-first ideology. Entrepreneurs, he’s lamented, often have “a harder life than employees” because “they can lose everything and have fewer guarantees.” His version of leftism is about “recreat[ing] the conditions to invest, produce and innovate.”

Macron has said he wants a France that “thinks and moves like a startup,” and that he takes inspiration from Silicon Valley — a place that creates rampant labor abuses, unsustainable inequality, and life-sucking working conditions just as surely as innovation and “positivity.”

It’s no surprise, then, that Macron has had a frosty relationship with workers. During his campaign, he was egged and told to “get lost” by union members in a Communist-controlled suburb of Paris. While visiting an appliance factory facing job loss, Macron was yelled at by one woman who lamented that “there is no work;” Macron responded that it was “important not to feel anger but to be up to meeting expectations.”

In another, more infamous incident, Macron got into an altercation with protesters demonstrating against the Socialist government’s labor reforms while visiting a school in the small town of Lunel. Macron told one man, a sixty-year-old teacher, that he should start his own business if he was worried about unemployment. When an unemployed twenty-one-year-old told him he couldn’t afford a nice suit like Macron’s, he replied that “the best way to pay for a suit is to work for one.”